Tubular braid.



PATENTED APR. 18, 1905i C. KLEIN.

TUBULAR BRAID.

APPLIOATION PILE-D JULY 30,1902.

UNTTED STATES PATENT Patented April 18, 1905.

OFFICEo (."HARLES KLEIN, OF BROOKLYN, NFV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE CASTLE BRAID COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NE\V YORK.

TUBULAR BRAID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,382, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed July 30,1902. Serial No. 117,622.

zen of the lil'nited States, residing in the city y of New York, in the borough of Brooklyn and State of New York, have invented een t tain new and useful Improvements in Tubular Braid, of which the Vfollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an article of manufacture consisting of a tubular braid in which the wales formed in the braid by the braiding of the strands together run or extend in an undulating form longitudinally thereof.

More specifically', the invention is a tubular braid having its wales running as described and having two selvage edges of a general undulating Vform and parallel with the wales m the body of the braid united by 1 a thread or filament which is looped through the selvage edges.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l illustrates one pattern of the tubular braid, and Fig. 2 represents the same pattern of braid as it would appear if the looped thread between the selvage edges were removed and the braid flattened.

ln the drawings, (L represents the braid. lts ribs or wales (indicated by b and which are produced in the natural process of braiding) extend longitudinally thereof and in undulating or wave lines.

c and (j indicate two selvage edges, which are also undulating and substantiallyP parallel with the wales in the body of the braid, but which are united to forni the tube by a thread d, looped into each selvage and it is to form it upon a flat-braiding machine in which there is a supplemental raceway for a number of spool-carriers which are caused to intercept the main raceway at its terminals where the selvage edges are formed. These 5o supplemental carriers carry the thread (I,

" which is thereby caused to interloop with the selvage. ln order to obtain the undulating formation of the wales, the tubular braid can crossed or braided upon itself or otherwise disposed between the selvage edges. lVhen this thread (Z, is eut out or removed and the remainder of the braid flattened out, it assumes the form shown in Fig. 2, wherein the undulating courses of the wales or ribs com- [non to all braided structures are clearly seen.

This braid may be constructed in any suitible manner. One method of constructing be formed upon a cylindrical spindle and the 55 spindle caused to oscillate or twist at intervals to divert laterally to and fro the ends of the threads in the shed at the apex thereof.

.Having described my invention, l claim` 1. As a new and useful article of manufae- 5o ture, a tubular braid consisting of a braided body, having wales or ribs of a general undulating form running longitudinally thereof and selvage edges united by a thread or lilament after the manner of a loop-stitch. 65

2. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a tubular braid having selvage edges of a general undulating form bound together by a thread substantially as set forth and ribs or wales of a general undulating form run- 7o ning longitudinally thereof.

3. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a tubular braid consisting of a braided body, having two selvage edges of wavy form, the waves of one edge fitting the waves 7 5 of the other edge, and means for uniting said edges, substantially as described.

4. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a tubular braid having extending longitudinally thereof wavy edges, the waves of 8o one edge fitting the depressions between the waves of the other edge, and a binder-thread entering both edges and binding the said edges together'.

ln witness whereof l subscribe my signa- 85 ture in presence of two witnesses* CHARLES KLlClN.

l/Vitnesses:

WM. A. ROSENBAUM, FRANK S. OBER. 

